Clear Head

In theory, having a baby should make us feel great about our professional capabilities. The first year of a firstborn’s life must be the world’s steepest learning curve, and so many of the new skills are relevant to any 21st century workplace; time management, multi-tasking, resilience and stamina, not to mention dealing with unreasonable people. And yet, it seems that for many women the return from maternity leave is fraught with self doubt.

White & Lime had a brilliant day presenting at the Women in Business Event at BAFTA this weekend. Truly inspirational key note speech by Miriam González Durántez, campaigning for women to give up just ‘one hour a year’ to give talks to school girls to raise their aspirations and provide a wider range of role models

Lots of inspirational speakers at the Marie Claire @Work Event Live in London next month, including International Lawyer and Campaigner, Miriam González Durántez and our very own Kate Franklin, Co-Founder of White & Lime.

Our absolute favourite wellbeing books of the last couple of years are ‘Eat Move Sleep’ by Tom Rath and ‘Thrive’ by Arianna Huffington. Here’s Arianna setting out some of her ideas from “Thrive” to an audience of Type A women….